Arsenal fans will hope that Mikel Areta von Arsene Wenger’s main error has learned to sign an Laliga central defender.
The Gunners are about to complete a deal worth around £ 18 million for Valencia Defender Cristhian Mosquera, which means talking.
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Mosquera rejected the interest of other Premier League clubs, including Bournemouth, by agreed with the Emirates Stadium outfit.
He will hope to break the form of the youngest central defenders from Spain in Arsenal.
Areta was still a player in the club when ex-manager Arsene Wenger completed a deal for the defender of Villarreal Gabriel Paulista in 2015.
The Brazilian arrived at the end of the transfer window in January and was an ubiquitous device on the yellow submarine.
However, Wenger delivered a brutally honest assessment by Paulista by saying that his lack of English could cost his sub -goals if he got involved.
“At the moment he doesn’t speak an English, and that can cost her goals,” said Wenger.
“If you ‘go’ with ‘go back’, mix it, it can cost you.
“You always have to give the players time to adapt, especially in a defensive position, as they have to know and also have to communicate their partners.
“He is ready. He will surely be in the squad [against Aston Villa two days later]. He started his training yesterday and looks fit. “
Wenger has demonstrated his aversion to risking Paulista in the following games, and he left him behind as an unused replacement for his first three Premier League -Matchday troops.
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He made his debut over two weeks after moving to Arsenal and played the entire 2-0 victory in the fifth round in the fifth round of FA Cup against Middlesbrough.
But Paulista did not play a minute of the last three months later when the Gunners Aston Villa had 4: 0 in Wembley to raise the trophy.
Ultimately, he appeared in Club 64 appearances in his two and a half years after he had never really earned confidence in North London.
“With all respect for arsenal, I have nothing to prove to them,” Paulista told the independent in 2019.
“I tried to prove my value in the Premier League, but I didn’t get the chances.
“When I played it was often because of an injury to my teammates. I deserved more chances. I was sad because I knew I had the ability to play … But other people didn’t think.”
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Paulista’s first full season in Arsenal was characterized by the impact at Diego Costa in a 2-0 defeat against Chelsea.
He missed a shock in redemption in the FA Cup final victory over the blues in 2017 after suffering injuries days earlier.
Paulista returned to Spain within months, but has since confessed that he never really learned English during his Arsenal office.
When asked which language defender spoke on the field, Gabriel said to The Guardian: “Everyone. I started playing next to us [Laurent] Koscielny or [Per] Mertesacker, and they did not speak Spanish or Portuguese, but they tried.
“Mertesacker was an incredible guy. Koscielny was a bit more reserved, but they both tried. [right, right] with me. Mertesacker would look in Spanish to help me.
“Even the manager spoke some Spanish to me. And there were others like Monreal, Héctor [Bellerín]Present [Santi] Cazorla, Alexis [Sánchez]. [Mikel] Areta too. Mesut [Özil] also spoke a little Spanish.
“And when RefS came over, I could only make a ‘sorry, sorry’,” continued Gabriel.
“Sometimes it was a problem that I couldn’t talk myself out of things: the problem that I had with Chelsea when I became chic …”
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Paulista left Arsenal to join Valencia, ironically the same club from which the Gunners had bought their youngest defender of Laliga, Shkodran Mustafi a year earlier.
Under Arteta, the manager, the magic of the German Premier League ended after torn the last six months of his contract.
And four years later, Areteta thought it was right to give Valencia a second chance of strengthening his backline with Mosquera.
In contrast to Paulista, the Spanish youth leader will immediately feel at home in London and share the nationality of his new manager.
This summer he will be the third Spaniard, who joins the club, according to the arrivals of Kepa Arrizabalaga and Martin Zubimendi.
The La Roja trio is part of the same defensive unit, which already offers No. 1 goalkeeper David Raya and midfielder Mikel Merino.
As a former winger who found his feet in defense, Mosquera is more than “further developed” and “go backwards” …